Employees in the following titles who
were previously in Bargaining Unit 01, New York State Correctional Officers
and Police Benevolent Association, Inc. (NYSCOPBA) or Bargaining Unit 61,
Council 82 Security Services Unit:

On August 19, 2002, the Public Employees
Relations Board (PERB) certified Council 82 as the bargaining representative for
State employees in the titles listed above. A new bargaining unit (31) was
established for this purpose.

Employees transferred to this bargaining unit will retain the same payment
eligibility as in their current contract until a new contract has been approved.

Dues and agency shop fees for the affected employees will increase from $17.59
to $22.12, beginning with the October 23 paychecks, with no retroactive
adjustment.

The employees will no longer be eligible for the following programs, and
deductions will be discontinued by the NYSCOPBA insurance carriers:

Rows were inserted into the Job Data
panels with the next sequence number for all subsequent rows.

Deduction Processing
A row was inserted in the Benefit Program Participation effective 8/19/2002 for
Benefit Program 31C.

All active rows in the General Deduction panel for NYSCOPBA Dues (Code 291) or
NYSCOPBA Agency Shop Fees (Code 295) were end dated. A row was inserted with an
effective date of 8/19/2002 for Council 82 Agency Shop Fees (Code 213).

Employees who are currently in bargaining unit 61 will continue to have
Dues/Agency Shop deducted using the same deduction codes.

Note:

If an
employee was previously represented by NYSCOPBA, and subsequently elects
to become a member of Council 82, agencies must start deductions for Code
202 using normal procedures. Due to the automatic changeover to the new
bargaining unit, these transactions need to be entered after October 11,
2002.

Agency Responsibility

Reporting Earnings
The new Earnings Program N31 for salaried employees contains all of the earn
codes currently in the Earnings Program N01 as well as the earn codes currently
in the Earnings Program N61 that are not in the N01 Earnings Program. Since the
affected employees continue to be eligible for only the earnings they were
eligible for in their previous bargaining unit, the agency must be careful to
select the appropriate earnings when reporting earn codes in the Time Entry or
Additional Pay panel.

Agency Queries

Two new Public Queries are available to
identify the Position Data records and the Job Data records that have been
automatically updated by OSC.

1.

UG_00_BU_31_SYS_UP_JOB
- Identifies employees and all Job Data rows that have been inserted with
the new bargaining unit information.

2.

UG_00_BU_31_SYS_UP_POSITION-Identifies
Position Data rows that have been inserted or updated with the new
bargaining unit information.

Questions

Questions regarding the automatic update of
Position Data and Job Data may be directed to the Position Management mailbox

Questions regarding deductions may be directed to the Payroll
Deductions mailbox.

Employee questions concerning changes to the Benefit Programs and Dues/Agency
Shop rates should be referred to the employee's local union representative.